Does Canada deport naturalized citizen?
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Naturalized citizen without a dual citizenship is still a citizen of this country. So where would the country deport someone after becoming a citizen through the naturalization process? Nowhere.
But the citizenship can be revoked under very special circumstances. You may read about it in the below link:
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/operational-bulletins-manuals/canadian-citizenship/acquisition-loss/revocation.html
Take care and all the best!
You covered everything, however, I wish to elaborate on your last point. In practice, Canada has not ever fully revoked a Citizenship. The one time they did (in the case of the Toronto Stock Exchange Bombing Conspirators), they subsequently reinstated the conspirators’ citizenships.
Therefore, the likelihood of getting deported is not very high I would argue.
EDIT: I understood your question as a consequence of a serious crime. I believe if you falsified your citizenship application then you can have your citizenship revoked. Not sure if that’s grounds to be deported however.
They would revoke only of there is misrepresentation in getting PR/citizenship.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nationalpost.com/news/canada/blatantly-lying-loses-family-its-citizenship-but-earns-them-a-63k-bill-from-canadian-government/wcm/01ec0be2-a8ff-407d-9227-fbb6cac2c410/amp/
No the site @s23srinivas linked states that Citizenship can be revoked for terrorism, high treason and some other crimes as long as the citizen won’t be rendered stateless.
Subsections 10(2) and 10.1(2) in the Citizenship Act were repealed in 2017. These were provisions adopted in Harper's Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, effective June 2015, and then repealed by Bill C-6 in 2017.
THERE IS NO PROVISION FOR REVOKING CITIZENSHIP BASED ON TERRORISM OR CRIMES.
As correctly noted, by @bluffmaster88 , ONLY ground for revocation of citizenship is misrepresentation. Citizenship has been revoked on the ground of misrepresentation in more than a hundred cases.
Not sure why the Program Delivery Instruction referenced and linked above has not been revised. Only been THREE years. Sometimes IRCC deserves harsh criticism and this is one of those occasions.
In any event, revocation for misrepresentation is more or less voiding the grant of citizenship, based on the premise that the grant was never legal to begin with since it was obtained by fraud. There is NO provision for revoking citizenship on any other grounds.
THERE IS NO PROVISION FOR REVOKING CITIZENSHIP BASED ON TERRORISM OR CRIMES.
As correctly noted, by @bluffmaster88 , ONLY ground for revocation of citizenship is misrepresentation. Citizenship has been revoked on the ground of misrepresentation in more than a hundred cases.
Not sure why the Program Delivery Instruction referenced and linked above has not been revised. Only been THREE years. Sometimes IRCC deserves harsh criticism and this is one of those occasions.
In any event, revocation for misrepresentation is more or less voiding the grant of citizenship, based on the premise that the grant was never legal to begin with since it was obtained by fraud. There is NO provision for revoking citizenship on any other grounds.
First, thank you all. That was a great explanation. In other words you have really mess up to get there. I was just curious as to what the government does in a case of naturalized citizen as in theory that's the only citizenship He/She holds if that gets revoked what's the person's status. Thanks again folks.
If the rest of the information from the IRCC website is still relevant and correct:
- "Revocation and Canada’s international obligations
Article 8 of the United Nations Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness states that a state is not in breach of its obligations should it render a person stateless for having obtained the status through fraud or misrepresentation."
This means that Canada is not obligated to keep person as a citizen and can make him/her stateless if their citizenship is revoked and do not have another citizenship.
- "Status of a person post-revocation
If the person’s citizenship was revoked due to false representation or fraud or knowingly concealing material circumstances during the citizenship process only (e.g., lying about residence in Canada during the relevant period), the person becomes a permanent resident as per subsection 46(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). Revocation in such situations does not itself jeopardize the right of the person to remain in Canada; however, the person must meet all obligations under the IRPA. For the residency obligation under the IRPA, the five-year period begins on the date the person becomes a permanent resident. If the person’s citizenship was revoked on the grounds they became a permanent resident by false representation or fraud or knowingly concealed material circumstances, the person will revert to foreign national status. If the false representation or fraud or concealing of material circumstances was with respect to a fact described in sections 34, 35 or 37 of the IRPA, the Federal Court, in certain cases, may also declare the person inadmissible and issue a removal order.
If the person, who is a foreign national, is in Canada once citizenship has been revoked, the person is in Canada without status. The person may be reportable under subsection 44(1) of the IRPA and may be subject to removal from Canada."
This means that if the fraud occurred while the person was a legal PR, then the person would revert to PR status. If the fraud occurred to acquire PR, then the person would lose their legal Canadian status, even if their previous country would not repatriate him/her and would make him/her stateless. With no legal status, this person is now subject to removal and deportation, most likely to the last country where he/she had legal status.